neat little tricks and features you should know (generators, list comprehension, slicing)

some modules from the standard lib that you should know (OS interface, filesystem, option parsing, xml?, network stuff etc.)

Q/A all the time of course

How long will the workshop last?

I really don't know. I try to cover the stuff mentioned above and then we can go into freestyle hacking, where we help each other out I guess. As long we do not run out of mate we can go on :-) The list of topics usually too long for one session, so expect a second one.

What do I need to participate?

I will use the latest release of the Python 2.x series which is 2.6 right now. 3.x is out already for some time but the adoption is low and a big number of 3rd party modules are not ported yet. So what I would expect from you is that you have the following installed: